Month: March 2009

I have been receiving a lot of emails lately about how much we should charge for videos, from directors that are starting out; what should be the cost for a music video in todays market? For pricing, you’re going to…

I found a great piece of software that helps you track the amount of time you spend on your projects. By tracking when you open a particular piece of software, copying and pasting items between apps(like images from Photoshop into…

Great work by director Eric Zimmerman, the mood is well set. The color correction goes with the scale of the melody(minor key), as does the fades and performance of the talent. The piano on the river was a nice touch,…

Yes, all these sounds are only coming from his mouth, no fancy sound processing done here. I’ve a lot of human beatbox guys doing there thing, but DJ eFFeX is unique in his amazing sense of rhythm, it really does…

Smooth track by The Cap Boyzz, I found this video through music video cinematographer Joshua Reis’s online portfolio, I’m not sure why they haven’t uploaded ‘Beat da thang’ on Youtube of Vimeo, I think it’s a slick video. The shots…

Not an amazing video by any means, but it has personality, like soon to-be-rap-megastar Asher Roth with his song ‘I Love College’, directed by Jonathan Lia and Scooter Braun. I like the raw college party feel and they did a…

It seems like Warner Records music and several other major music labels are pulling their videos off Youtube, it’s being said that they are doing this in order to setup a ‘hulu.com’ website that they would administer. Not only do…

I remember when MTV would show videos like these all the time, they were simple, direct and inspiring. They didn’t need pimped out rides, chicks in bikinis getting their groove on or Star Wars like effects. Some of them were…

Looks like a Chris Cunningham influeced music video created by NIN’s Trent Reznor; surreal, goth and grunge mixed in with serious techno beats. The video has already been flagged on several websites for it’s suggestive nature(if you are a minor,…

Having footage at 4K resolution(4096 horizontal pixels times 3072 horizontal pixels) makes post production up to four times slower, but the keying capabilities are unreal. The only problem we are having at the moment is storage space, to output the…